1997 Daihatsu HiJet Dump Truck#BUC80247

Our stock includes this 1997 Daihatsu HiJet Dump Truck — a right-hand-drive Japanese import. Drive on this HiJet Dump Truck is four-wheel drive. 10 photographs of this specific vehicle are on this listing.

The mechanical side of this HiJet Dump Truck

The 1997 HiJet Dump Truck came with a 5-speed gearbox, and that is what this one has. The point of four-wheel drive here is being able to finish the job in conditions that would strand a two-wheel-drive truck of the same weight.

1997 Daihatsu HiJet Dump Truck: the background

Daihatsu is Toyota's small-vehicle specialist and the Hijet is the product it has spent longest refining — sixty-plus years of iteration on a single idea, and it shows in how resolved the details are. Every four-wheel-drive Minicab from 1984 onward got twelve-inch front disc brakes and automatic free-wheeling front hubs as standard. Daihatsu supplies the Hijet to other makers for rebadging — Toyota since 2011, Subaru since 2012 — and it was licence-built abroad as the Piaggio Porter in Italy and the Asia Towner in Korea.

1997 Daihatsu HiJet Dump Truck: recorded details

The odometer reads 34797. The source recorded no unit alongside that figure, so 34797 is reproduced exactly as stored rather than converted.

What a HiJet Dump Truck is good for

Landscapers, small builders and smallholders are the people who end up with a HiJet Dump Truck like this one. We describe what is recorded and nothing more. If a figure is not on this page, it is because we do not have it on file. Price on this one is $5,900. Everything about a kei vehicle follows from the class rules — width, height, displacement and the shape of the cab are all downstream of the same regulation.